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Fat Tax - UK may follow Denmark
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- Published on Tuesday, 04 October 2011
In an interview during the afternoon with CHANNEL 5 NEWS at the Manchester Conservative Party Conference, Prime Minister David Cameron hinted that the UK would consider a " fat tax " [see GUARDIAN Oct 3rd below]. The interview was first run in the 5 NEWS AT 5 bulletin complete with an endorsement from the National Obesity Forum.
In a longer quote to the Press Association the Forum made it clear that the devil might still be in the detail but it was a move in the right direction. The UK should seriously consider such a tax, implementing the first of 20 measures that the recent UK/WHO Assembly High-Level meeting in New York had fudged addressing. Taking a word out of the coalition's own play book, the Forum opined that yesterday's Danish decision may have " nudged " the Prime Minister into making his statement.